I find it ironic that senile Pelossi wants to get rid of senile Biden. 

 Interesting thought.  Just like RFK, Jr., she is really good on certain issues, but totally disagree with her on others.  I do think both are America loving people with a moral compass (something missing in most politicians, especially at the Federal level).

I'd love her as Secretary of State or Defense Secretary, but not so much as President. 

 Isn't he a communist or something? 

 I'd move in today, if possible. 

 That is a harder issue, but I'd argue that most of the time the Bible gives enough information to know how to interpret the grayer areas correctly if you are looking at the Bible for truth rather than looking for an excuse to have your own opinion because it isn't explicitly spoken about.  I can't say that is true 100% of the time though. 

 Good job!  Getting pavers perfectly lined up and flat is not trivial. 

 If I didn't have family on the opposite side of the country, I wouldn't, but I'm not going to never see family again.  I'm scheduled to fly later this month for my Dad's 80th birthday. 

 Some years ago, I was driving to a friends house and a rainbow appeared that seemed to end on the hood of my car.  I wanted a picture so badly, but couldn't readily take a picture while driving and there was no one else in the car to take it.  If I pulled over, it wouldn't be lined up right.  I wish I had that picture. 

 I just read an article saying Biden had a meeting with the Chancellor of Germany last month.  The Chancellor specifically scheduled the meeting early in the evening to suit Biden, but Biden didn't show up.  He sent Blinken (or Blinken voluntarily went in his place).  When Blinken was asked why Biden wasn't there, he replied, "He had to go to bed."  It is scary to have someone this far gone as President.  So much can go wrong and obviously other, unelected people are running the government in his place.  Yikes! 

 Functionally servant, but positionally, child of God. 

 This has become more real to me lately.  I've intellectually known that everyone has an eternal soul that will be spent somewhere because that is what the Bible teaches, but I had cognitive dissonance and thought of the unsaved as just ceasing to exist when they died.  When you think of people just ceasing to exist, it doesn't seem as critical that they get saved.  When you know that they will spend an eternity in torment in Hell, it really urges you to witness and not take the easy route. 

 Hell is actually mentioned more than heaven in the Bible. 

 The government forcing a technology on people are banning another is evil.  Lying about the benefits of one technology over another is also evil.  Both need to be addressed.  I do agree that anyone who wants to buy and drive an EV should be allowed to do so.  I just don't think they should be encouraged to do so by regulation or lies. 

 waterfox (closely related to firefox.  I believe it is a spinoff) 

 I've almost gotten to the point of only wanting to eat ice cream I make myself, but I also am not good at doing it lately.

When I buy ice cream I normally get Breyers Natural (My husband complains because it is more expensive).  It only has normal ingredients.  The thing I can't figure out is that it comes in Neapolitan (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry), vanilla, and strawberry, but I can't find natural chocolate.  They  make chocolate for the neapolitan, so why don't they make it alone?  (Maybe they do and my grocery store just never carries it.) 

 FYI, other than the Breyers Natural, all of the other Breyers ice cream has some yucky ingredients in them, so don't blindly grab Breyers. 

 When I was in college (before victimology was a big deal like now), a black girl wrote an editorial complaining that she was mistreated because of her race.  Her example was that someone on the bus grabbed their backpack, swung it onto their back, and it bumped her.  She said it was because of her race.  I can pretty much guarantee that it was an accident and the person responsible was so self-absorbed, they had no idea she was hit.  I wouldn't have thought anything about it.  Some people are oblivious.  Some people are rude.  Some people are both.  It doesn't mean they are racists or personally attacking someone.  

If you want to find a grievance, you can find one, but that doesn't make it real.  I am so over the victimology culture.  They need to grow up. 

 I'd argue that most of the time, speaking the truth (in a loving manner) is more caring than telling a person what they want to hear.  They may even hate you for speaking the truth, because it is uncomfortable, but that doesn't mean it isn't for their good.

On your original post, I basically agree, but would disagree on a minute detail.   Christians are always called to speak the truth in love.  We are not supposed to tell people what they want to hear, but what God's word says.  The slight nuanced difference is that I wouldn't call that judging.  We are just speaking God's truth. 

 Amen!

"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."  (Ephesians 2:8-10) 

 A denomination can be useful in finding a decent church since so many denominations have become so corrupted, even if they started out faithful to God's word.  On the other hand, putting a denomination anywhere near the authority of God's word, is evil.  We left a church because of this issue.  The pastor was good.  Our small group Bible Study was good, but we came to find out that the rest of the church was seriously messed up.  Our Bible Study got in trouble for teaching through the Bible instead of using the denominations Sunday School material.

I agree that anyone who thinks we can work our way into God's good graces or into salvation is 100% wrong.  Works is an evidence of salvation, not a method of earning salvation. 

 Good point.

I also know it is going to be hard to convince Israel to join a peace treaty and not wipe out Hamas.  Israel has repeatedly signed peace treaties and given up land and every single time, it has hurt them in the longterm because their enemies are only interested in the complete destruction of the Jews.  When groups like Hamas do a peace treaty, it is for the sole purpose of letting them rebuild and get resituated to attack Israel again.  

It blows my mind (it shouldn't at this point) that Hamas attacks Israel, Kills more than a thousand civilians, including women and children, kidnaps others, and then when Israel retaliates, Israel is told they need to negotiate.  What ever happened to "no negotiation with terrorists" because it just causes more terrorism? 

 Kissinger is so evil. 

 You're welcome. 

 I don't actually think Joe picked her, but it could be Jill picked her to help Joe maintain power and protect their crime family. 

 All good recommendations.

I also follow Biblical Man on Substack.  He has a lot of good things to say. 

 Most people choose a comfortable lie over an uncomfortable truth.

I've also found that having these uncomfortable talks with family seems to be hardest, whether it is BTC or Jesus.  They don't want to hear it. 

 When you tell people that they are an accident of nature and a descendant of pond scum instead of people who are created in the image of in unfathomably awesome God, this is what you get. 

 caused by removing God from culture and society. 

 I like this quote from Alexis De Tocqueville about American greatness:
 
"I sought for the key to the greatness of America in her harbors; in
	her fertile fields and boundless forests; in her rich mines and vast
	world commerce; in her public school system and institutions of
	learning. I sought for it in her democratic Congress and in her
	matchless Constitution. Not until I went into the churches of
	America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I
	understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great
	because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good,
	America ceases to be great." ~ Alexis de Tocqueville.
Then you have to remember that nothing is good apart from God.

"And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone."  Luke 18:19 

 He does work in mysterious ways, but He told us how He created everything and He was very specific.  There are many things He does that He doesn't explain.   These things are mysterious.  There are some things He explains that are beyond our ability to fully comprehend.  There are some things He tells us explicitly.  Creation of everything, including life, He explained explicitly.

You will never get evolution out of the Bible without twisting it into an unrecognizable form.

In addition, as I've studied more and more science, there are massive holes in the theory of Evolution.  They cannot find any way to create the first life because life is so complicated that it can't happen by chance.  There are zero uncontested (by evolutionist) intermediate forms showing one kind changing into another.  The tree of life looks more like a forest of life with many trees (kinds) branching within a kind, ie. different kinds of dogs.  If you look at genetic mutations, almost all are harmful and he few that are arguably beneficial are almost always due to a loss of information, not gaining information.  They are also mildly beneficial, so it is impossible to select (if unintelligent "nature" was actually able to select) the good traits without including lots of more harmful traits.  

Another problem is that so many things in life are irreducibly complex.  They can't evolve gradually.  They must evolve instantly, like the circulatory system.  You can also take something like sexual reproduction.  Besides the fact that it is irreducibly complex, it is complicated by the fact that you have to produce the irreducibly complex female sexual system in one creature of one kind and the irreducibly complex male sexual system in another creature of the same kind in the same location at the same time.  Believing this could actually happen is illogical.

There are so many additional reasons that Evolution can't be true, but I don't have time to go into more details and you probably don't have time to read them. 

 It depends.  In big corporations decisions tend to be made in the best interests of the bosses and to maximize stock prices.  In small businesses, although the best interest of the boss is definitely considered, they tend to make decisions based on what is best for the business.  If the business fails, the boss (owner) and the workers all lose their jobs.  It is actually in the best interest of all that the owners make decisions based on the best interest of the company for this reason.  Sometimes they have to cut costs by firing, cutting hours, or even cutting pay, but this hardship is so the majority can continue making a paycheck.

As a small business owner, I have always taken good care of my employees.  We have always had one or more key employees that make more than us and there have been times when we haven't cashed our paychecks for 6 months straight so we have the cash to pay our employees and keep them employed.  Don't assume the boss is cleaning up and never sacrificing.  You might be surprised.  (Of course this behavior is much more common in small businesses than in big corporate environments) 

 with governments, almost every decision is made for the good of the politicians, the bureaucrats, and the political donors or friends of the politicians. 

 I would love to get there, but it would be a difficult transition and it would be fought tooth and nail by most people.  

Pragmatically in the short term, I'd switch to a system that supplied anyone who wanted to homeschool something like $500-$1000/year (could be up front or reimbursement for purchases made for the student) and up to something like $5,000/year for those who wanted to send their kids to private school (I'm betting most private schools would suddenly manage providing schooling for $5,000/year).  Currently states spend $16,000 - $25,000 per student per year based on one article I checked. This would massively reduce spending while giving parents choice.   Over time, as more choices became available, fewer and fewer students would attend government schools and they would slowly be closed or combined until there were few, if any, left.  This would allow a smooth transition and allow new options to slowly come into existence.  Once most of the students leave the government schools, then they could be eliminated entirely (to reduce costs).

These amounts could be tweaked as needed (different cost of living in different states or more variability based on hybrid options or helping with some daycare) and potentially there could be a payout amount between the homeschool and private school options for hybrid schooling, where the parent does much of the education, but pays for schooling in areas the parent feels unable to teach.

It isn't perfect, but it would be much better than what we have and would give a smoother transition. 

 I'd love to get rid of all spending, but pragmatically you can't just shut it off in one day.  You have to have a process to eliminate it.  I was giving a pragmatic process for reducing in hopes of getting rid of it all. 

 When I was in school, you counted how many teachers there were for each bureaucrat.  Now they count how many bureaucrats there are for each teacher.  In most cases, I'm betting they could eliminate 80% of the non-teacher staff and hardly notice a difference for the students.  Of course this would require turning down Federal funding, so schools didn't have all of the federal reporting requirements.  (About 10 years ago in my state, the federal government paid for less than 10% of the education costs.  I'm betting it is the same and that the cost of compliance is much higher than the money received.  My husband tried to write a bill requiring a committee to investigate the cost of compliance with Federal regulations and compare it to the amount of money received to see if it was worth it.  Almost every legislator was afraid to vote for the bill because they didn't want to be seen as anti-education.  Of course, if the cost of compliance is higher than the federal funds, then eliminating both would put more money in education, but nobody seems to think that far ahead. 

 What could possibly go wrong with US spy bases on one side of Cuba and Chinese spy bases on the other side? 

 Put me in the "thinks she's going to melt/bake/die" category. 

 I hope you are OK. 

 Kind of like chapters in a book? 

 That would be great.  I could make an index for my whole series on the Fruits of the Spirit, another on my series on prayer, another on my end times series, and another on my Genesis series.  That would be awesome to have them so well organized.  That would make things even better than on substack where I have been posting them.  I am looking forward to it being released. 

 Awe.  That's so sweet. 

 I hate canola oil, but that is pretty. 

 Boys were expected to act like men from a young age.  I found it amazing when I was reading about President Jefferson creating the first US Navy to battle the Barbary Pirates.  One of the ship captains of one of the only 4 ships in the entire navy was 18 years old.  He had been working on a ship since he was 6 years old.  

Kids today are coddled and have limited skills and little work ethic when they become "adults".  Parents and the government are not doing kids any favors when they prevent the kids from working,  from having responsibilities, and from having any consequences to their actions. 

 My irrigation pump went out late last summer and just got fixed.  I had something like 150 raspberry bushes planted.  100% died.  I am so jealous of yours. 

 In most ways the founders were far superior to what we have today, but they still had too many lawyers. 

 I'd bet more than half of the ingredients in our food (especially by number) are not food and are toxic.  The FDA does more harm than good. 

 Yes, it is true that God made Satan.  That doesn't make him part of God's consciousness.  It makes him a rebellious creature.  They are not friends and God doesn't get bored.  God does put a limit on the mayhem Satan can cause and only allows bad things that lead to God's desired outcome.

Satan is an angel, the most wonderful angel, who was corrupted by pride and wanted to take the place of God.  Even though he is a being created by the God he foolishly thinks he can thwart and replace.


"12How you have fallen from heaven,
O star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who have weakened the nations!
13But you said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne above the stars of God,
And I will sit on the mount of assembly
In the recesses of the north.
14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’
15Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol,
To the recesses of the pit.
16Those who see you will gaze at you,
They will ponder over you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,"  Isaiah 14:12-16)

The first mention of Satan is in Genesis 3.

"Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”  (Genesis 3:1)

We know the serpent was Satan because there are several verses, like this one, that equate the serpent with Satan.

"And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him."  (Revelation 12:9)

Of course Satan does not look like the stereotypical picture of Satan.  I recently leaned where the silly picture of Satan all in red with horns, a pitchfork, and cloven feet came from.  In the Middle Ages, they knew that Satan's fall was caused by pride.  To "keep away the devil", they made a comical effigy of Satan to mock him and his pride.  Unfortunately future generations saw this effigy and thought it was a proper view of Satan and it persisted.  In reality, Satan is a physically beautiful angelic being who has become corrupted morally.

"No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light."  2 Corinthians 11:14)

I'm sorry, but this is all I have time for at the moment.  Have a blessed day.

If you want to learn more about God, check out https://trustjesus.substack.com/ 

 There are many cultural/mythological things in many post-flood cultures which you can tell are corruptions of the truth explained in the first 11 chapters of Genesis.  That is one of the things that makes it obvious that those chapters are true and literal.

For more information on taking Genesis literal (scientifically, historically, and textually), check out my 6 part series.  https://trustjesus.substack.com/p/literal-genesis  If you don't have time for all 6, read 4-6 which are better organized. 

 Amen 

 I like the whole serenity prayer.  The first 4 lines are easy to remember and implement, but the rest is even more biblical.

God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did,
this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.

                                            Reinhold Niebuhr 

 Find a good, Bible believing church.  Read your Bible so you know if what you are being taught is Biblical or just psychological.  New Christian friends will help you in your walk with Christ. 

 That is sad.  We've got a fantastic church.  

Sometimes a church has problems, but is still worth attending if there are no other options.  Sometimes they are so apostate and anti-biblical that they cause more harm than good.  I don't know what your situation is.

It is true that it is getting harder and harder to find a church that truly believes and preaches the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation without putting a huge cultural spin on it and leaving out the parts they don't like. 

 It does, but it is worth it. 

 A more detailed explanation for anyone interested.

https://trustjesus.substack.com/p/the-carrot-or-the-stick

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 Well said.  It reminds me of this quote.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams